As part of Computing Club at my kids school we’re learning some Markdown. They needed a printed reference, but all of the ones I came across were either too visually complex or included every type of formatting possible using Markdown. I just wanted the basics, so I created this:

It’s the same on both pages, making it easier to print two to a page (i.e. A5 size)

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“A truly peaceable person is a person with a long life. To live, let live. The peaceable not only live, but reign. You should see and hear, but remain silent. A day without an argument leads to a sleep-filled night. To live a lot and to enjoy life is to live twice: this is the fruit of peace. A person has everything who cares nothing about what matters little. Thereâs no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously. Similarly, itâs stupid to take things to heart that donât concern you, and not to take to heart those that are important.”

This is pretty much exactly what I needed to hear this morning. I spend too much of my life focusing on an ever-enlarging sphere of concern, which makes my sphere of influence tiny. I should be working to reverse that trend.

Back when everyone was using delicious to share bookmarks, I used to use it daily. Twitter kind of put a stop to that. More recently, I used a tumblr blog and then migrated to this (Known-powered) one in order to bookmark links.Â

Instead, what I should be doing is using pinboard.inÂ for bookmarking and this blog for random thoughts – much as Warren Ellis does with morning.computer.

Still, as some people must be sick of me quoting Clay ShirkyÂ as saying, my workflow’s in perpetual beta. Current optimisation is long-term anachronism.

Suddenly, the reasons for creating a native experience began to narrow. Not only was there very little we could do in a native app that we couldnât do on the web, but the strictures of the native app environment made it nearly impossible to design well for both. Even with our own software to ease the process of âpublishing everywhere,â we were forced to make suboptimal design decisions in order to ensure that stories looked as perfect in the app as they did on the desktop and mobile web. Those differences needed to be tested on different devices and operating systems, no matter how good our software was at pushing to multiple environments smartly.

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Ultimately, whatever small slice of attention we were gaining by having our app on some peopleâs home screens was outweighed by the technical, business, and design considerations that had piled up against it.

“Ultimately we donât employ people in the civil service in order to employ people,” Hancock told WIRED. “That is not the aim. We employ people in the civil service in order to run the country for the citizens of Great Britain.”